as an important part of my work, and my life, blankets deserve a separate category!
I have no words for the world right now. Hope for the best, be prepared for the worst, i think that is the only/ best possible state of mind to have right now. So let's not dwell, and get back to crochet. I mean, those of you who have not picked up needles and yarn, you may as well... I have said before HERE: #crochetplayoneaday you have probably seen this before but I have adapted it with crochet hooks rather than knitting needles. Wooly eyed skull anyone? :) #crochetplay #oneadayPosted by thecreativehook.com on Monday, July 14, 2014 Today i am showing off a quick turnaround, lots of love, specially designed blanket that is warm…
Blue squares. There is something about the blanket that i want to talk about today, that feels complete. Not just because it is actually finished as a blanket. There is something more. The individual pieces of this blanket were made at various stages as i was learning and relearning crochet stitches. As i started changing my work from my arty farty video installation work and adapting it into something more every day use - you could say crafty farty... I know i keep saying that i do not follow patterns, but at least i try to look at patterns and learn from them now. Then i did not. I tried to make granny…
dear diary – dandelion drumbeat Today’s story is from the past. The rainbow blanket that I want to introduce today was made at the start of the year. It was January and there were hardly any countries on lock down yet. It seems so long ago and so much had changed since then. Still, I want to show it off, because it deserves its dedicated space and it's story of origin. I could not write about it any earlier for a few reasons. It was a present for my beautiful niece, who was about to be born any time then, so i needed to finish the blanket when i did... As it turned…
“I crochet to keep my mind from unravelling” is a revised version of a quote by Niki de St Phalle, very much appropriate for my next blog post, all about my crochet processes. I suppose it helps to look back at what you have done, every now and again, to review, and when you make blankets as huge as the ones I make, at the same time hope to post monthly, well, there are expected to be some months void of crochet blanket completion news.. This gives me a space to fill with crochet ramblings before each blanket is finished and each blanket's story is ready to be written into a new blog…
I don’t undo There is no unraveling and recreating stitches until perfection is bestowed upon my work. The point of my crochet is not for the project to look perfect, but for me to remember what i have learnt whilst making it... There is only keeping going and trying as i go along, i have no time to go back and redo... When planning this blog post, this was something that became focal to me, as it was always going to be a review of my work with an aim to start the new year with an increased ability to articulate my intentions within my crochet, and to define my practice a little…
yesterday’s yearnings – yearly yonder The weather in the UK has not been following last year's anomalous hotness... Am i surprised? Not really. But, when i started thinking about this post a little while ago, it was looking promising, with few days here and there bringing us temperatures warranting light jackets, if any outerwear at all... I nearly put my woolly wonders away, before i realised how perfect they are for this exact time in the year.... Crochet blankets are exactly the perfect spring/ summer outdoorsy attire – for evenings especially in the UK. Whether you are sitting outside after a barbeque of an evening, in your garden, or gathered by a campfire,…
I have been working with a lot of previously made small crochet items recently, turning them into large, humongous, oversized, ginormous, gigantic, crochet BLANKETS. It has been a way of using any crochet work that i have made previously, and that has been lying around the work room, in variously neatly organized packages/ bags/ boxes/ drawers... or at least on surface, this has been an exercise of efficiency and recycling. To find a use for items that were originally made to be used as small cloths, various sized crochet bunting triangles or crochet coasters, which will not really get a chance to be used in that way, because no one knows they exist…
Wondrous Women – Warm Wanderers So, it is finished. It is now time to write the story of another "thoughts-in-knots" blanket which i recently realised are the core of my current creative crochet work. The process of making these free-form crochet blankets helps me considerably when organising my thoughts.. It started with my Nan's work. I have been given these amazing leaves, pictured below, made by my grandma. The idea together with encouragement for Nan crocheting these maple leaves came from my mum, after having been surrounded by grandma's crochet work for the majority of both my mum's and my life... After completing my last thoughts-in-knots adventure with my Rainbow coloured Chevron Crochet…
So, another project finished, it is time to share the story of the rainbow blanket. I cannot remember, and refuse to count, how many times i have seen a chevron crochet blanket in the movies... It is one that these days appears, do i dare venture an opinion, even more often than the very classic of American crochet, the Granny Square Blanket. I have seen one in many films and because i have used the chevron stitch before, and liked it, i thought, why not.... so i started, a long-ish while ago. it got to a stage, where it was sat on the side and not much was happening with it, because, when…
'There is strength in numbers', I have heard someone say on many an occasion... Being a great believer in individuality, but at the same time questioning TRUE individuality of each and every notion, in my personal views on life, something had made me want to write this post. Crochet related, of course, this is what has happened in my work... I have famously finished the BAVARIAN CROCHET ROUND BLANKET and you can congratulate me endlessly HERE and wherever else you may wish to do so.... But, this had left me open with a space for the next project.... I have tried Chevron Crochet on numerous occasions and most of the time abandoned the…
